Keywords: MID4096, SMID16461, pict. XXVI, Dido (S) 15, manuscript, book illumination, parchment, 400/410, Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, cod. vat. lat. 3225, Vergilius Vaticanus, altar, sceptre, phiale, phiale mesomphalos, patera, fire (on altar), tree, garland, temple, bull, naiskos, aedicula, cult image, cult statue, libation, axe, hatchet, pelekys, sacena, securis, victimarius, sacrifice, sacrificial animal, sacrificial assistant, oratory gestureXXX, sheep, laurel branch, dorsuale (strap over the animal’s back), seer, soothsayer, sow, veil, stemma, infula, band of wool, female sacrificial assistant, sacrificial assistant (boy), fire, flame, tray, lanx, catinus, city, Aineias, Alkestis, Anchises, Askanios, Deiphobos, Dido, Erinys, Hektor, Hera/Iuno, Kerberos, Kreousa III, Minos I, Mousaios, Orpheus, Penates, Polydoros I, Sibyllae, Nekyia, Achates